Burmese Junta Should Be Tried

The Press Association

The military regime in cyclone-struck Burma should be hauled before the International Criminal Court for its failure to help the country's people, a senior Tory has said.

The call came from shadow international development secretary Andrew Mitchell who said two million people in Burma were in danger because of the failure to develop a civil society in that country.

"We see a regime run by evil thieving gangsters who don't give a fig for their people, who are stealing aid, and who are deliberately blocking the international humanitarian relief which people of good will all around the world wish for Burma," he told the Scottish Tories' annual conference in Ayr. I say that such leaders should be carted off to the International Criminal Court at The Hague and face charges of crimes against humanity."